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The Demon in the Freezer

Summary: This essay, called Demon in the Freezer explains how non-fiction books are similiar to fiction books.

Deadly viruses surround the human population all over the globe waiting for the right condition to destroy the human race. The average human being may only know about three or four of these major viruses. Scientists have determined which viruses could start a huge epidemic. After the 9/11 incidents, scientists around the world are mainly concentrating on smallpox. In 1979, a team of doctors and health officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminated and collected all known samples of smallpox from the globe. Officially, the smallpox virus exists in only two repositories: in freezers in a building called Corpus 6 at Vector in Siberia, and in a freezer in a building called the Maximum Containment laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. Peter Jahrling, the senior scientist at USAMRIID says, "If you believe smallpox is sitting in only two freezers, I have a bridge for you to...